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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Another major connection between the University and Industry is through the School of Engineering's Innovation Center. This center is tailored to Senior Design projects, where over 200 external industry clients have prompted real-world challenges for groups of students to "solve" over the course of a year. These solutions have reached client expectations 85% of the time because of the investment UD makes for legal, business, feasability counseling. Other innovation and design course have access to the Innovation Center. It provides spaces for collaboration space, workshop space, machine tools, testing equipment, and financial/legal/business resources.</span>
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the last decade, UD and the City of Dayton have rejuviated their focus on the importance of entreprenuership and innovation for the purpose of econmic growth in the city. One future project is renovating the Dayton Arcade to create an "Innovation Hub" downtown for students and local companies in the Dayton area. Another future project is the transformation of 38-acres of land adjacent to UD's campus. The unversity has yet to reveal the plans for this property, but they informed students that it would be a <span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:small;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">place that builds on Dayton's history of innovation and entrepreneurship and can propel the region's next wave of jobs and opportunity."</span></span>
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